Beyond the Crucible
224 episodes - English - Latest episode: 25 days ago - ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsYou are more than your failures and setbacks. We share stories of leaders who have moved beyond life’s most difficult moments to lead lives of significance, and insights on how you can do the same. Hosted by Warwick Fairfax.
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Overcoming Poverty to Gain an Abundance Mindset: Alice Tsang #169
June 27, 2023 07:00 - 52 minutes - 73.2 MBWe’ve heard some remarkable stories on this podcast, but Alice Tsang’s is one of the most remarkable … and triumphant. That's because from the crucible of abject poverty that saw her sharing a tiny apartment with more than a dozen others, needing the quarter a day her uncle could spare that allowed her to eat lunch at high school, she gained an unlikely education that she’s put two use in a pair of successful careers – first as a successful fixed-income analyst on Wall Street and now as a co...
Embracing Her Tragic Paralysis as a Gift: Janine Shepherd #168
June 20, 2023 07:00 - 57 minutes - 80.2 MBJanine Shepherd was on track to represent her home nation of Australia in the Olympics as a cross-country skier – but then her dream, quite literally, crashed when she was hit by a utility truck while on a bicycle training exercise with her teammates. She came out the other side of that horrific accident and the 6 months of arduous recovery that followed to discover she was a paraplegic. But as she explains to Warwick, her identity as “Janine the Machine,” the elite athlete, was not to be ...
How She Found Herself After Escaping a Narcissistic Marriage: Victoria McCooey #167
June 13, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 84.8 MBA violent altercation in which her enraged husband choked her was the last straw for Victoria McCooey. It left her 6-year-old son, who was in the room at the time, thinking she had been killed. But it also started her down a path of self-discovery and self-care. On this week’s episode, McCooey tells Warwick in detail the toll that being married to a narcissist had on her identity … as his controlling ways left her feeling unworthy and ashamed. But she also describes how she fought her ...
Surviving the 'Gift' of Cancer: Dr. Erica Harris #166
June 06, 2023 07:00 - 53 minutes - 74 MBDr. Erica Harris endured a cavalcade of crucibles – starting with being diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia and given just two months to live after her body did not respond to chemotherapy treatments. But then, miraculously she believes, she went into remission in time to receive a bone-marrow transplant that put her on the road to recovery … only to find herself in the direst of straits again when her new immune system rejected her lungs and her life was hanging by a thread of hope. ...
The 3 Important Truths Any Crucible Will Teach You #165
May 23, 2023 07:00 - 58 minutes - 81.3 MBUsing our worst days to help others have their best days. That’s the undergirding philosophy, the bedrock exhortation, of BEYOND THE CRUCIBLE. And we explore it on this week’s episode in detail so that you can apply the lessons we've learned to turn your own trials into triumphs. Warwick and I take a tour of those learnings, ground also covered in the new blog at BeyondTheCucible.com, 3 Critical Lessons All 5 Crucible Types Can Teach Us. We’ve discovered and keep discovering with each new ...
Preventing Money from Becoming Your Identity: Kristin Keffeler #164
May 16, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 103 MBHelping people develop a right relationship with money, particularly the younger generations in families of wealth and influence, is the unique focus of the work done by this week’s guest, Kristin Keffeler. As a leading practitioner of family wealth advising called Wealth 360, she supports families of significant means in doing what she calls the “inner work” of money. It’s not just about managing portfolios, but developing a healthy life identity around the dollar signs. This may be t...
Unshackling the Shame of Her Parents' Overdose Deaths: Lauren Sisler #163
May 09, 2023 07:00 - 57 minutes - 79.8 MBLauren Sisler was a freshman at Rutgers University when learned she had lost her father just hours after she had lost her mother. Having come home to grieve one parent, she was blindsided by the news that the other had died, too. And she had no idea how any of it had happened This week, we speak with Sisler about that 2003 tragedy, when she was not only hit with the unfathomable news of the deaths of her mom and dad, but the shame she couldn’t shake after she learned how they died: fro...
4 Truths To Help You Get Beyond Your Crucible #162
May 02, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 83.1 MBA new day. The sun will come up. Hope. Things will get better. These are beliefs and emotions we all long to experience when we’ve been through a crucible. It’s not easy to get there, but in this episode we aim to help you move in that direction. Warwick discusses in detail his new blog at BeyondTheCrucible.com about the four things he wishes he'd known when he went through his darkest time … to help you get through yours. You’ll learn that it’s OK to give yourself permission to grieve, th...
Recovered with Purpose: Adam Vibe Gunton #161
April 25, 2023 07:00 - 53 minutes - 74 MBAdam Vibe Gunton shares in harrowing detail how his life went from him being a “golden boy,” the star of every sports team he played on, to a tragic descent into darkness and dependence on heroin and prescription painkillers – set into motion by being introduced to cocaine at 12 and worsened when he blamed himself for a friend’s suicide. He wanted to die … until the rekindling of his faith in a miraculous way set him first on the road to sobriety … and then to significance. He founded ...
Reckless Faith in Action: Beth Guckenberger #160
April 18, 2023 07:00 - 58 minutes - 80.5 MBOur guest this week, Beth Guckenberger, explains how the death of her father when she was certain he would pull through knocked her off balance, making her question the faith in which her life was rooted. But when she realized God’s ways were not her ways, that they were grander and more mysterious than she had ever imagined, that knowledge was fuel for her journey to care for the physical, emotional and spiritual needs of orphans through Back2Back Ministries, which she and her husband start...
Trials Happened For Her, Not To Her: Andrea Heuston #159
April 11, 2023 07:00 - 56 minutes - 78.8 MBYour crucible didn't happen to you, it happened for you. You’ll hear us say that a lot – tied to that trial, set within that setback, affixed to that failure … you’ll discover seeds you can plant along your journey to a life of significance. You just have to look for and learn from them. Our guest this week, Andrea Heuston, has accumulated plenty of those seeds as she’s moved beyond her crucibles. From an emotionally wrenching infertility struggle, to a medical emergency that left her ...
Burn the Ships 9: Series Wrap-Up: 5 Truths We Learned About Lighting the Match #158
April 04, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 98.5 MBOver the last eight weeks, our guests have shared some profound insights to help guide you as you consider making a bold, dramatic pivot in your life to pursue something life-changing and significant. We distilled their top tips into our latest blog, and Warwick and cohost Gary Schneeberger discuss them in depth on this episode. Our goal is to help you walk away – maybe “sail away” is a better way to put it – from the series with critical takeaways to help you decide whether it’s time ...
Burn the Ships 8: From Ministry Executive to Corporate CEO: Mike Beckham #157
March 28, 2023 07:00 - 55 minutes - 77.4 MBWhen you find yourself with a match in your hand, contemplating burning the ship you’re in to climb aboard another that will take you in a different direction, having the opportunity to make an impact is about the best destination you can chart a course for. And that’s exactly what Mike Beckham did. This week, in the final interview in our special winter series BURN THE SHIPS, Warwick talks with Beckham about transitioning from rewarding work at a nonprofit ministry to the world of bus...
Burn the Ships 7: From Corporate Executive to Ministry President: Dan Wolgemuth #156
March 21, 2023 07:00 - 57 minutes - 80 MBThis week, Warwick speaks to Dan Wolgemuth, whose burn the ships moment looks a little different on his resume than it does in his heart. After nearly three decades of working in the corporate world, he followed his faith into becoming president of a nonprofit Christian ministry. But he’d have never gotten there if the flames didn’t first get lit iwithin. He had to stop pursuing a career script written by and starring him and follow a new one written to focus not on what he could accom...
Burn the Ships 6: From Drug Dealer to Entrepreneur and Mentor: Donte Wilburn #155
March 14, 2023 07:00 - 56 minutes - 77.8 MBIn this episode of our special winter series BURN THE SHIPS, we talk to Donte Wilburn about how he wound up selling drugs in his teens and 20s – recognizing the danger but embracing the lifestyle that dealing allowed him to live. But that lifestyle, he explains, came perilously close to ending his life. It was only after he leaned into his faith and avoided prison thanks to a judge who believed in him that he found a new ship to board – starting out washing cars for minimum wage at an ...
Burn the Ships 5: From Biomedical Engineer to Reality-Show Adventurer: Joel Hungate #154
March 07, 2023 08:00 - 56 minutes - 78.3 MBGo do it! That's the counsel, the hope, the legacy the mother of our guest this week, Joel Hungate, gave her son. He’d need those words more urgently than he ever could have imagined when she died by suicide, leaving him to question everything on which he had based his life. In this episode of our special winter series, BURN THE SHIPS, Warwick talks with Hungate about how his Mom’s death left him in an emotional spiral that he was only able to get out of by embracing his faith. And tak...
Burn the Ships 4: From Crucible Leadership to Beyond the Crucible #153
February 28, 2023 08:00 - 59 minutes - 81.6 MBIf you’ve been listening to our special winter series BURN THE SHIPS, you’ll know why we’ve turned the microphones on ourselves this week. It's because we’ve made our own pivot – changing our business name from Crucible Leadership to the name of this podcast, Beyond the Crucible. While the change is more a remodeling of our ship than setting it ablaze, it does indeed signal an expanded vision that speaks to our new focus and the new inspiration and action steps we can offer you as yo...
Burn the Ships 3: From Doctor to Actor: Darwin Shaw #152
February 21, 2023 08:00 - 53 minutes - 73.2 MBIn this third episode of our winter series BURN THE SHIPS, Darwin Shaw describes how he set fire to a medical career, with the near-guarantees it offered, to pursue acting and the creative joys it offered. Maybe you know him as Daniel Craig’s first kill enroute to double O status in CASINO ROYALE; maybe as the Apostle Peter in the megahit miniseries THE BIBLE. Maybe from his role as a key creator of The Anti-Viral Film Project, an international effort to provide creative work for actors and ...
Burn the Ships 2: From Chasing Success to Embracing Intentionality -- Finnian Kelly #151
February 14, 2023 08:00 - 49 minutes - 68.7 MBWhat do you do when the normal tools you use to navigate life no longer work? When the ships that have taken you to a crossroads – or maybe a crosswaters – in your life are smoldering? According to our guest this week, Finnian Kelly, you set sail in a new craft to a new destination: intentionality. In this second episode of our winter series BURN THE SHIPS, Kelly discusses how all the success he chased, and caught – a prestigious military career, top-shelf entrepreneurship, star of a Natio...
Burn the Ships 1: From Music to Lifestyle Brand Entrepreneur: Eryn Eddy #150
February 07, 2023 08:00 - 55 minutes - 76.7 MBEryn Eddy had found a way to make her passion for music pay off -- licensing her original compositions to VH1 and MTV and some of the most popular shows on television. But she longed to give giving people more than a song to listen to. She wanted to give them a truth to live by. That makes her the ideal first guest for our new series BURN THE SHIPS, in which we’re talking with men and women who have been brave enough to make dramatic pivots, leaving behind “safe” and familiar lives to ...
A Life Resolution That Will Last Well Past the New Year #149
February 01, 2023 02:51 - 1 hour - 101 MBThe ultimate hope of every one of us is to live a life worthy of being remembered. If that’s something you’ve been thinking about during this season of New Year’s resolutions, you’ve come to the right podcast. This week, Beyond the Crucible founder Warwick Fairfax unpacks his timely new blog about ways you can commit in 2023 to live in a way that is true to who you are, anchored in a vision that is uniquely yours and therefore uniquely satisfying and significant. He discusses seven key steps...
Want to Align Your Values with Your Actions? They Can Help: Tom McGehee and Jim Stollberg #148
January 24, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 83.4 MBA critical component of Beyond the Crucible’s recipe for discovering your unique path to a life of significance is to develop a strong team of advisers to help you lean into your gifts and passions along the journey, especially in the aftermath of a crucible. This week, Warwick talks to two men serving in that role to men and women all along the-age and-stage spectrum. Our guests Tom McGehee and Jim Stollberg, the co-executive directors of Halftime, an organization that helps professio...
"Horrible and Beautiful" -- Lessons from Her Husband's Cancer Battle: Karen Austin: #147
January 17, 2023 08:00 - 55 minutes - 76.3 MBKaren Austin experienced both anguish and joy as she walked with her husband, Tracy, after a cancer diagnosis that took his life, but never his optimism and spirit. In our conversation this week with Karen, she shares with intimacy, vulnerability and, yes, humor about what she describes as her “crucible life” – the early death of her mother, her brother’s suicide and the cancer that took her husband in 2017 -- two months before their 20th anniversary. From the ashes of those trag...
A Marathon Skiing Battle Against Parkinson’s: Bill Brown #146
January 10, 2023 08:00 - 53 minutes - 73.2 MBIt’s quite common for those we interview to tell us their crucibles have improved their lives, made them richer than they would ever have been without the setbacks or failures. This week, Warwick talks with Bill Brown – his Harvard Business School classmate in the ‘80s -- who describes how he was approaching the pinnacle of his business career, as a finalist in Toro’s search for a new CEO, when a medical diagnosis derailed his plans: he had Parkinson’s. But he has refused to let Parkinson’s...
The Gift of a $2.25 Billion Dollar Failure: Warwick’s Crucible Revisited #145
January 03, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 97.6 MBIn our first episode of 2023, we’re joined by guest co-host Lexi Godlewski, who interviews the host of Beyond the Crucible, Warwick Fairfax. His face and voice you know, but the deeper parts of his story you may not! Warwick shares new insights, lessons and perspectives on how he moved beyond his crucible and created a life of significance after the failed takeover of his family’s 150-year-old media business. As unique as this story is, the message is universal: life’s toughest challenges...
Finding Holiday Joy Amid Loss and Crucibles: Gary Roe #144
December 13, 2022 08:00 - 44 minutes - 61.5 MBThe holiday season, according to the songs that celebrate it, is supposed to be the most wonderful time of the year. It's when all is calm and all is bright and we join with friends and family to fa-la-la-la-la our way to the new year. But what if we just don’t feel that way? In our final episode of 2022, we talk with author Gary Roe about how to get through these last days of the year while coping with crucibles and being grieved by losses that grow even more intense. He shares the be...
Gaining From Loss VI: A Roadmap to Recovery #143
December 06, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour - 114 MBWe put a bow on the package of our special fall series by exploring the wisdom we heard from all five of our guests. The insights they offered form a roadmap for how to find gain out of even the most devastating losses: be patient, work to change what you cannot accept, understand there is room for your pain on the other side of your loss, intentionally cultivate joy as you continue to grieve and live as a good ancestor to those who come after you. To explore Beyond the Crucible assets, i...
Gaining From Loss V: Marisa Renee Lee #142
November 29, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour - 84 MBWhat does OK look like after you’ve been through a devastating loss? How does the new person you become in the aftermath of that loss go on living even as you go on grieving? This week, we talk with Marisa Renee Lee, a former official in the Obama White House and a regular contributor to Glamour, Vogue and The Atlantic. She discusses at length the struggles she endured after her mother was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, then battled and succumbed to breast cancer when Marisa was jus...
Gaining from Loss IV: Rabbi Steve Leder #141
November 22, 2022 08:00 - 42 minutes - 59.1 MBRabbi Steve Leder thought that after officiating more than 1,000 funerals, he understood death and the loss experienced by those it leaves behind. But it wasn’t until his own father passed away that he felt in his heart, rather than just knowing in his head, the depth and breadth of losing a loved one. The lessons he’s learned and the applications he’s still living out have made clear to him that the losses we experience in life can be the fuel for living more intentionally. He says th...
Gaining From Loss III: Kayla Stoecklein #140
November 15, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour - 86.4 MBIt is fair to ask what gain Kayla Stoecklein experienced from the loss of her husband, Andrew, to suicide in 2018. What good could possibly come from where she found herself after such a devastating tragedy? What beauty could be birthed from those terrible ashes? In our conversation with Kayla this week, she answers all those questions in ways that will inspire you as much as they surprise you. She discusses with Warwick the moving and meaningful truths she’s packed into her book -- Re...
Gaining from Loss II: Jason Schechterle #139
November 08, 2022 08:00 - 56 minutes - 77.4 MBJason Schechterle was a rookie Phoenix police officer in 2001 when his stopped squad car was slammed from behind at more than 100 mph and burst into an inferno. The unimaginable burns he suffered left him in a coma for two and a half months. He woke up unable to see, his appearance dramatically altered by his injuries and the surgeries he underwent to treat them. He struggled emotionally with what had happened to him – but never gave up the fight, or gave up hope that he’d win it. In t...
Gaining From Loss I: Shelley Klingerman #138
November 01, 2022 07:00 - 51 minutes - 70.1 MBWe kick off our fall series GAINING FROM LOSS with Shelley Klingerman’s story of grit in the face of grief after her brother, Greg, a 30-year veteran law enforcement officer, was shot to death in an ambush while leaving a government building – a senseless and evil act. From that tortuous crucible, Klingerman has dedicated herself to celebrating the essence of Greg and helping his fellow officers via the nonprofit she founded not long after his killing: Project Never Broken. Her organiza...
BEST OF 6: Nancy Koehn, Part 2 #137
October 25, 2022 07:00 - 47 minutes - 66.1 MBErnest Shackleton and the men he was leading on an expedition to cross Antarctica had piled up a breathtaking number of life-threatening crucibles by late 1915. Stuck motionless in polar block ice for months, hundreds of miles off course with no way to communicate their location to anyone who could help, Shackleton and his men were running low on the supplies they had already been forced to ration in miserly fashion when their greatest disaster struck: The ice that had trapped their ship no...
BEST OF 5: Nancy Koehn, Part 1 #136
October 18, 2022 07:00 - 43 minutes - 60.2 MBNancy Koehn was on track for an administrative leadership role at Harvard Business School, where she taught the history of leadership to the world’s best and brightest. But a series of personal crucibles — the death of her father, a divorce that came without warning and decimated her finances, a cancer diagnosis — caused the floorboards of her personal and professional lives to crumble beneath her. Her career aspirations drydocked, her sleep interrupted nightly at 1 or 2 a.m., she sought sol...
BEST OF 4: Dr. Taryn Marie Stejskal #135
October 11, 2022 07:00 - 57 minutes - 78.8 MBAdversity, Dr. Taryn Marie Stejskal says in this latest edition of our best-of series, is a trip we take. Resilience paves the road we walk to move beyond it. As one of the foremost international experts on building and exercising resilience in business and in life, Stejskal has crafted the Five Practices of Particularly Resilient People through exhaustive research into the subject … and informed by her harrowing experience of being stalked in high school by a man who eventually assaulted an...
Discover Your Second-Act Significance: A First Look at Our First E-Course #134
October 04, 2022 07:00 - 54 minutes - 75.2 MBWe’re launching Beyond the Crucible’s first-ever e-course – Discover Your Second-Act Significance -- in October. In this episode, host Warwick Fairfax and cohost Gary Schneeberger pull back the curtain of its creation, discussing -- among other things -- what each of them learned while filming the course. The hope is that by sharing what those who take the course can expect, they'll discover a path to move from asking themselves “Is this all there is?” to a life that is everything they've al...
BEST OF 3: Ryan Campbell: Piloting Past Paralysis #133
September 27, 2022 17:19 - 1 hour - 83.3 MBAt 19, Ryan Campbell became the youngest pilot to fly solo around the world. Two years later, a horrific plane crash threatened more than the dream he birthed at 6 to make a life and a living streaking through the skies. Left a paraplegic after the accident, he fought back physically and emotionally to walk — and hope — again. Today, he’s an in-demand motivational speaker who inspires audiences to build a mindset toolbox to conquer their crucibles. To learn more about Ryan Campbell, visit ...
BEST OF 2: Sarah Nannen: Moving Beyond Surviving to Rediscovering Joy #132
September 20, 2022 07:00 - 58 minutes - 80.5 MBIn this second part of our best-of series, we talk with Sarah Nannen. With four children under 6 -- the youngest just a few months old -- Sarah's life was upended as both a mother and a wife when her husband, an Air Force fighter pilot, was killed in a training accident. A former naval officer herself, she understood how to navigate through the material and logistical details of the tragedy, but needed to learn how to move through the emotional upheaval of instantly becoming a widow and a si...
BEST OF 1: Tracy J. Edmonds: Embrace Your Wild Hair #131
September 13, 2022 07:00 - 57 minutes - 79.4 MBIn this first episode of our best-of series, we talk to Tracy J. Edmonds. From the outside looking in, her life couldn't have been sweeter: A high-profile executive job with a Fortune 30 company at which she excelled. But on the inside, where she discovered it really counts, her career had come at a high cost because of a self-imposed crucible: not being her authentic self. So she decided to embrace both her figurative and literal wild hair -- trading her corner office for a cubicle and tack...
LIGHTS, CAMERA, CRUCIBLES: That's a Wrap! #130
August 30, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 125 MBThis week we tie a bow on the package that has been our special summer series, LIGHTS, CAMERA, CRUCIBLES: What Our Favorite Movie Heroes Can Teach Us About Overcoming Setbacks and Failure. Host Warwick Fairfax and cohost Gary Schneeberger discuss five key learnings from the eight episodes that comprised the series – spotlighting such highlights as Captain America’s oft-repeated mantra of “I could do this all day” as he faces challenges to John McClane’s never losing his sense of humor as he ...
LIGHTS, CAMERA, CRUCIBLES 8: Hoosiers #129
August 23, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 114 MBOur summer series LIGHTS, CAMERA, CRUCIBLES: What Our Favorite Movie Heroes Can Teach Us About Overcoming Setbacks and Failure continues with HOOSIERS … and it’s the perfect film to end the series before next week's wrap-up episode. Why? Because at its core the message of the film is what overcoming our crucibles is really all about: redemption. It's the story of Coach Norman Dale, who leads his team to an unlikely Indiana high school basketball championship in the 1950s. It’s unlikely...
LIGHTS, CAMERA, CRUCIBLES 7: Iron Man #128
August 16, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 85.2 MBFew movie heroes undergo a success-to-significance arc fueled by their crucible more dramatically than Iron Man – and maybe even more so, his alter ego, Tony Stark. In his first movie appearance, Tony is a glib, hedonistic billionaire playboy who has a lot to live with, but not much to live for. That all changes when he’s attacked with some of the same missiles his company makes and is nearly killed. As he emerges from that crucible, given a second chance by one man’s surgical skill and se...
LIGHTS, CAMERA, CRUCIBLES 6: Die Hard #127
August 09, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 97.8 MBIn the latest episode of our special summer series, we focus on four big take-aways from the movie that made Bruce Willis a superstar that can help you move beyond setbacks and failures. Even if you haven’t been trapped in a skyscraper seized by international terrorists, there is much to learn here about triumphing over whatever challenges you have faced. Just two of the points we’ll touch on: why it’s critical to lean into your sense of humor even when what’s happening to you isn’t funny … ...
LIGHTS, CAMERA, CRUCIBLES 5: Spider-Man #126
August 02, 2022 18:43 - 1 hour - 108 MBWith great power comes great responsibility. That’s what Peter Parker’s Uncle Ben tells him in the film we look at on this week’s episode of our summer series, LIGHTS, CAMERA, CRUCIBLES: What Our Favorite Movie Heroes Can Teach Us About Living a Life of Significance. That counsel and wisdom from Uncle Ben – and Aunt May – has been a key component of three different big-screen iterations of Spider-Man over the last 20 years. It’s a key Crucible Leadership lesson, too, one that Peter Parker le...
LIGHTS, CAMERA, CRUCIBLES 4: Robin Hood #125
July 26, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 109 MB"Rise and Rise again, until lambs become lions." There’s a motto to live a life of significance by, to inspire not just perseverance in the face of crucibles, but noble triumph over them. It's the central truth explored in this episode of the summer series LIGHTS, CAMERA, CRUCIBLES: What Our Favorite Movie Heroes Can Teach Us About Overcoming Setbacks and Failure. Host Warwick Fairfax and cohost Gary Schneeberger discuss the many lessons to learned from ROBIN HOOD, particularly the Russell C...
LIGHTS, CAMERA, CRUCIBLES 3: The Natural #124
July 19, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 99.5 MBThe life we learn with … and the life we live with after that. Those words come from THE NATURAL, the film we discuss on this week's episode of our summer series LIGHTS, CAMERA, CRUCIBLES: What Our Favorite Movie Heroes Can Teach Us About Overcoming Setbacks and Failure. It’s hard to think of a better way to express the truths we try to share each week on this show: offering hope and practical action steps to learn the lessons of your crucibles in order to chart a course to a life of signifi...
LIGHTS, CAMERA, CRUCIBLES 2: Batman #123
July 12, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 85.8 MBWe say often on the show that crucibles don’t happen to us, they happen for us. And in this second episode of our special summer series, LIGHTS, CAMERA, CRUCIBLES: What Our Favorite Movie Heroes Can Teach Us About Overcoming Setbacks and Failure, we examine that truth as played out in the story of Batman. It's a powerful tale about how Bruce Wayne did not let the unimaginable trauma of seeing his parents murdered when he was a boy keep him from a life of significance. He found purpose in his...
LIGHTS, CAMERA, CRUCIBLES 1: Captain America #122
July 05, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 106 MBOur eight-week summer series, LIGHTS, CAMERA, CRUCIBLES, kicks off this week. We examine some of the most popular film heroes -- superheroes, sports heroes and action heroes -- to extract key learnings and practical action steps to help you move beyond your crucibles to a life of significance. We begin with Captain America, whose "I can do this all day" attitude offers inspiration for staying strong and standing tall when setbacks and failures come. What makes Captain America, aka Steve Roge...
How Infertility Saved her Life: Sarah Willoughby #121
June 28, 2022 07:00 - 49 minutes - 67.4 MBLying in a hospital bed, unable to do anything for her only son but watch him leave and wondering if it would be the last time she'd see him was the traumatic crucible Sarah Willoughby faced after she turned to in vitro fertilization (IVF) in a desperate attempt to have another child. Diagnosed with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) and secondary infertility after losing another baby, she was at the end of her physical and emotional rope. That’s when she decided to stop trying to force her ...
Leaving an Organized, Meaningful Legacy: Ian Dibb #120
June 21, 2022 07:00 - 52 minutes - 72.8 MBIan Dibb knows firsthand that from the ashes of your crucibles are born the strength and wisdom to not only survive – but to live a life dedicated to serving others. Dibb’s most devastating moments were the deaths of his sister and his mom within months of each other – life-rattling tragedies that birthed his calling. He turned his pain into purpose after struggling to settle the estates left behind by his loved ones – an experience that led him to launch keylu, an online portal that helps u...